Fenging the Schui: Goals for the Fall in NYC

Fall season is upon NYC. It’s time to enact those little tips to supercharge into the cold season. Searching far and wide, high and low I have been looking for something to motivate the burbschwagger movement online. After all I set “goals”. I have actionable items which, if  benchmarked should get me to where i “should have been last year”.

Via my daily self improvement section, of my reader via  Leo Babauta of Zen Habits & mnmlist..com( Love his sh&t) comes his version on “fenging the schui” His post is titled

” Minimalism’s Logical Extensions: Break free from goals”

<blockquote> So here’s what I do, instead of setting and achieving goals:

I do what excites me. Each day. I wake up, and work on things that I’m passionate about, create things that I love creating.

I don’t worry about where I’ll be (professionally) in a year or even six months, but where I am right now.

I don’t make plans, because they’re an illusion — you never know what will happen in a year or even six months. You can try to control what happens, but you’ll lose. Things always come up, sometimes good and sometimes bad, that will disrupt plans. Instead, I’ve learned to go with the flow, to not worry about things that disrupt plans but worry about what to do right now. This allows me to take advantage of opportunities to come up that I could never have planned for, to work on things I couldn’t have known about, to make decisions about what’s best right now, not what I planned a few months ago.

I don’t force things, but do what comes naturally.

And I focus on the present, on being happy now.
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I would say that i agree with him but there is something to be said for writing it down and seeing it visually.

I will experiment, this week i will blog with passion and next week i will blog according to a schedule already preplanned. Then will we shall see.

Yours

B. Schwartz